Help choose Asteroid Watch's next community project!

Hello, pilots!

Thank you to everyone who has already wishlisted Asteroid Watch and followed its development. In the last update, I shared more about clans, fleet expeditions, and the growing mining loop. This time, I want to give the community a say in what comes next.

The latest development build introduces The Next Frontier, a new community voting screen for choosing our next shared facility or megaproject.

Development preview. Vote totals shown are sample data.

Your voice. A shared direction.

The idea is to gradually build a shared corner of space that belongs to the community: somewhere to meet other pilots, discover new opportunities, and develop useful facilities together.

The first step is deciding what you would most like to see built. Open Community vote from the in-game quick actions, browse the proposals, and choose the one you want to support.

One vote every 24 hours

• One vote per regional account every rolling 24 hours. The countdown starts when your vote is accepted.
• A shared regional tally. Every encounter and game server in your region contributes to the same results. Europe, Americas, and Asia Pacific have their own ballots.
• Keep supporting your favorite, or choose something different next time. Each eligible vote adds to the total; previous votes stay counted.
• Browse while mining or docked. Review all six proposals and see their current support before casting your vote.
• Your vote stays saved. Reconnecting, restarting the game, or performing an Ascension preserves your recorded votes and cooldown.

Every pilot gets the same voting opportunity, regardless of ship, mining power, or ore balance.

Six ideas for our next frontier

• Community Hub: a shared home among the stars, where pilots could dock together, meet up, and show off their ships.
• Stock Exchange: a place to invest in fictional spacefaring companies, trade shares, and grow an in-game portfolio.
• Trade Depot: player-to-player ore trading and public delivery contracts connecting miners with buyers.
• Research Institute: shared discoveries and community research toward new recipes and regional improvements.
• Observatory: a way to uncover unusual signals, rare mining opportunities, and cosmic mysteries.
• Orbital Shipyard: a larger community construction project, building vessels for automated deep-space expeditions.

These facilities are proposals. The voting screen is the new feature in this build. I'll use the results to help decide which facility to develop next, with its design and details taking shape from there.

A little celebration for every vote

I wanted voting to feel like a moment worth checking back for. Each proposal has its own color and holographic artwork, with animated support bars and a supply-chest-inspired confirmation: glowing energy, sparks, expanding rings, and a satisfying +1 when the server confirms your vote.

Reduced-motion settings keep the artwork and confirmation readable with a quieter presentation.

Development preview of the vote confirmation, using sample data.

Help shape Asteroid Watch

Asteroid Watch is still in development. This is a look at the development build; the Steam release remains Coming soon.

If a little corner-of-your-screen mining operation sounds like your kind of game, please add Asteroid Watch to your wishlist. It helps the game reach more pilots, and you'll be notified when it becomes available.

Wishlist Asteroid Watch on Steam

Already wishlisted? Thank you! Follow the game for future updates, share it with a friend, and let me know in the comments: which project would get your first vote, and what would you love to do there?

See you in the belt!